After EC-KAC was able to decide two elimination games in its favor last weekend, on Tuesday, March 22nd, it will face the Vienna Capitals in “game seven”, which was played away and finally decided the outcome of the quarter-final series. Puls24 will broadcast the match starting at 7:45 p.m. live.
With the victories in Vienna on Friday (3:2 after extra time) and in Klagenfurt on Sunday (5:3), EC-KAC was able to turn a 1:3 series deficit into a 3:3 for the first time in its club history. This means that the defending champion will play a “Game Seven” on Tuesday for the first time since the quarterfinals against EC Salzburg in 2016.
Historically speaking, the Redjackets’ experience with seven matches in “best-of-seven” series is quite limited, as is the corresponding track record: only five times did a playoff duel involving red-white participants experience such a culmination, in four of these cases were defeated the Carinthians.
The only KAC victory in a seventh game was in the 2009 final series against Salzburg, in the 2-1 draw on their own ice there were four cracks from the current squad in the lineup: the Geier brothers Manuel and Stefan, Martin Schumnig and Thomas Hundertpfund .
The EC-KAC will probably have the same staff available on Tuesday as they did during the home win on Sunday. All players from the 22-man squad for game six made the journey to the German capital on Monday afternoon. On the day of the match, a second tranche of supplementary players moves up in order to be able to react to possible absences at short notice. Jakob Holzer, Steven Strong, Rok Tičar and Johannes Bischofberger will definitely be missing again for the red jackets.
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